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Wonderful thread eh?
but it may be our biggest thread by the time we're all done here...
but it may be our biggest thread by the time we're all done here...
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"Van Halen was one of the most hallelujah, tailgate, backyard, BBQ, arrive four hours early to the gig just for the parking lot bands. And still to this day is. It's an attitude. I think it's a spirit more than anything else is." -
Saints tackle Brown arrested, charged with domestic abuse
June 23, 2006
CBS SportsLine.com wire reports
MANDEVILLE, La. -- New Orleans Saints offensive tackle Jammal Brown was free on bond Friday following his arrest on a domestic abuse complaint from his wife.
Brown was booked Thursday with domestic abuse battery after his wife placed a 911 call, said Capt. George Bonnett, a spokesman for the St. Tammany Parish sheriff. When officers responded, Brown was not at home, but returned before officers left, Bonnett said.
"I can certainly say it was a physical altercation," Bonnett said. "We know they had a disagreement that escalated into a physical disagreement."
Although Bonnett would not disclose what injuries Brown's wife sustained, he said she was not hospitalized. Brown was arrested and posted a $5,000 bond on the misdemeanor charge, Bonnett said.
"We're aware of the situation and our security department is investigating it," Saints spokesman Greg Bensel said. "Until that has been concluded, we have no further comment."
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Copyright 2005-2006, The Associated Press, All Rights Reserved"Van Halen was one of the most hallelujah, tailgate, backyard, BBQ, arrive four hours early to the gig just for the parking lot bands. And still to this day is. It's an attitude. I think it's a spirit more than anything else is." -
Rookie Rucker latest Bengal in legal hot water
June 21, 2006
CBS SportsLine.com wire reports
LOS ANGELES -- Bengals defensive end Frostee Rucker has been charged with two counts of spousal battery and vandalism.
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The misdemeanor charges were filed Tuesday after an alleged fight between Rucker and his girlfriend at a party he was hosting in Los Angeles last August, said Frank Mateljan, a spokesman for the city attorney's office.
Rucker's girlfriend, whose name wasn't release, sustained minor injuries in the fight, Mateljan said. The woman's Blackberry and a cell phone were damaged, he said.
There is no warrant for Rucker's arrest. Mateljan said the former Southern California standout was sent a letter requesting his or his lawyer's appearance at an arraignment July 13 in Superior Court.
If convicted, Rucker could face up to three years in county jail.
Rucker denies the charges, his attorney said.
"We're in the process of investigating these charges and intend to uncover evidence which we believe will totally exonerate that," attorney Leonard Levine said. "When we do so, we'll provide evidence to the City Attorney's Office and ask them to dismiss all charges."
A Bengals spokesman says the team does not comment on pending legal matters.
Rucker is the third Bengals player to face criminal charges recently.
Wide receiver Chris Henry turned himself in to authorities last week after he was charged with providing alcohol to underage girls. Linebacker A.J. Nicholson was charged earlier this month with burglarizing the apartment of a former Florida State teammate.
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Copyright 2005-2006, The Associated Press, All Rights Reserved"Van Halen was one of the most hallelujah, tailgate, backyard, BBQ, arrive four hours early to the gig just for the parking lot bands. And still to this day is. It's an attitude. I think it's a spirit more than anything else is."Comment
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engals WR Chris Henry pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges accusing him of providing alcohol to three underage females. Henry, 23, has been arrested four times in the last seven months in three states. He was arraigned on his latest set of charges in northern Kentucky on Thursday morning, then went to Paul Brown Stadium for the team's minicamp. Henry did not practice with the team because he is still recovering from a knee injury suffered during Cincinnati's playoff loss to Pittsburgh last season. Trainer Paul Sparling said Henry could be cleared to resume practice in a few weeks. enry was also arrested for drug possession, a concealed weapons charge and speeding and drunken driving. The latest charges grew out of an investigation into an 18-year-old woman's claim that Henry sexually assaulted her at a hotel. She was charged with filing a false police report after police said she changed her story. Henry is accused of providing alcohol to the woman and two other females 15 and 16 years old. Authorities said more charges could be added.
(Updated 06/16/2006).
This guy is a fucking winner..."Van Halen was one of the most hallelujah, tailgate, backyard, BBQ, arrive four hours early to the gig just for the parking lot bands. And still to this day is. It's an attitude. I think it's a spirit more than anything else is."Comment
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Police: Pitcher hit wife in public
June 24, 2006
Boston Herald
Philadelphia Phillies hurler Brett Myers punched his wife and dragged her down Dalton Street by her hair early yesterday, police allege, but that won't stop him from taking the mound at Fenway this weekend.
Cops arrested the bald, 6-foot-4, 240-pound pitcher after several outraged passerbys called 911 after midnight, saying that "a man was beating a woman" outside the Sheraton Boston, according to a Boston Police Department report.
Minutes later, police arrived and found Kim Myers, 28, the mother of the slugger's two toddlers, sitting on a curb crying, her face welted and streaked with tears.
"He punched her twice in the face and dragged her down the street by the hair like a caveman," a witness told police.
Myers pleaded innocent to assault charges yesterday at his arraignment.
The BPD report stated that "the victim had slight swelling on the left side of her face," and she told police her husband, 25, hit her twice.
Kim Myers, who lives in Glenn Mills, Pa., refused medical attention and later ponied up $200 cash to bail her husband out of the District 4 police station.
Phillies officials have refused comment on Myers' legal troubles but gave no indication that the pitcher will skip his scheduled start in the rotation against Red Sox star Curt Schilling.
"My indication was that he wanted to pitch," said Phillies GM Pat Gillick.
When asked if Myers' arrest on assault charges was an embarrassment, Gillick replied: "I don't know if it's an embarrassment, but it's something we're very sensitive to."
According to a Major League Baseball source, the league will monitior the situation but will not discipline Myers until the legal case against the ballplayer runs its course.
Copyright 2006 by BostonHerald.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Good to see the Phillies had their priorities straight...and let him pitch today...
nice...
guess the 20 or so folks that saw him do it weren't enough proof that he did it..."Van Halen was one of the most hallelujah, tailgate, backyard, BBQ, arrive four hours early to the gig just for the parking lot bands. And still to this day is. It's an attitude. I think it's a spirit more than anything else is."Comment
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Shouldn't there be a thread just for the following:
NFL players in legal trouble
Sub-forum with Bengals players in trouble
Sub-forum with stories of ironic and tragic former Steelers deathsComment
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Bengals have character, all right -- a lot of it bad
July 17, 2006
By Gregg Doyel
CBS SportsLine.com National Columnist
Tell Gregg your opinion!
If you lived in Cincinnati and turned on your sports radio, you'd hear pious Bengals coach Marvin Lewis say, "We're going to continue to pay big attention to character and red-flag things like that."
Chris Henry dropped the ball this offseason, getting arrested four times in eight months. (Getty Images)
And then five days later in the 2006 NFL Draft you'd see pious Bengals coach Marvin Lewis pick Southern California defensive end Frostee Rucker, whose known rap sheet included accusations of sexual assaults against two women and indecent exposure in front of a third.
If you lived in Cincinnati, you'd hear righteous Bengals coach Marvin Lewis say, "If you do the research and you do the character and background (checks) all the way through -- which we've been able to do and are continuing to do on these guys -- you've got to feel like you've done the right thing."
And then in 2005 you'd see Lewis draft Georgia linebacker Odell Thurman, who had been kicked off that team as a freshman for failing a drug test, then got suspended by his junior college team for other reasons, then returned to Georgia ... where he was accused of underage drinking and having an open container in a car, and for dessert, was involved in a separate incident with his pregnant girlfriend that ended up on a police report.
If you lived in Cincinnati, you'd hear disciplinarian Bengals coach Marvin Lewis say, "We're not so much going to get the popular guy but the guy that fits what we want to do -- raise the level of professionalism in the whole building."
And then in April you'd see Lewis draft Florida State linebacker A.J. Nicholson, who once had to be subdued by a Tallahassee police officer's Taser after Nicholson allegedly ran from police and hid in bushes near a construction site. He also had been arrested on DUI charges and sent home before the 2006 Orange Bowl for bringing a woman to his hotel room. She accused Nicholson of sexual assault. Four months later, the Bengals drafted him.
These are your new Cincinnati Bengals. They're a lot better than the old Bengals, who were embarrassing, but generally the old Bengals confined their embarrassing episodes to Sundays at the field. The new Bengals -- Marvin Lewis' improved, formidable Bengals -- are only embarrassing when the game ends and the real world begins.
The new Bengals in April drafted Rucker in the third round and Nicholson in the fifth, and in between spent their fourth pick on Michigan State defensive tackle Domata Peko -- 11 months after he was caught urinating in public and running from the police.
In 2005, the new Bengals had drafted the troublesome Thurman in the second round and followed that by picking crotchety Chris Henry in Round 3. At West Virginia, Henry had been ejected from a game for drawing two unsportsmanlike conduct penalties, after which he got into a shouting match with coach Rich Rodriguez and gave the Rutgers crowd the finger. Later that season he was suspended one game for violations of multiple undisclosed team rules. Still later that season, he was benched in the Gator Bowl for taking off his helmet and waving sophomorically after not being thrown the ball. Then Henry got into it again with Rodriguez. Four months later, the Bengals drafted him.
Now then. Get this.
If you lived in Cincinnati right now, you'd be reading about a litany of off-field embarrassments involving Rucker, Thurman, Nicholson and Henry. Shocking, I know. Here's the rundown:
Rucker faces two counts of spousal battery and two counts of vandalism stemming from an incident when he was in college, an incident that -- unlike his alleged sexual assaults -- came to light after he was drafted.
Thurman reportedly will be suspended for four games for a second strike in the NFL's drug-testing program."Van Halen was one of the most hallelujah, tailgate, backyard, BBQ, arrive four hours early to the gig just for the parking lot bands. And still to this day is. It's an attitude. I think it's a spirit more than anything else is."Comment
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Nicholson was charged last month with burglarizing the apartment of a former FSU teammate, allegedly making off with $1,700 worth of electronic equipment.
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Henry has been arrested four times in eight months: charges of (1) marijuana possession, (2) drunken driving, (3) providing alcohol to three teenage girls -- ages 15, 16 and 18 -- and (4) brandishing a 9-mm Luger during an argument on an Orlando street. Eight rounds of hollow-point bullets were found in his limousine. The pistol was later reported stolen.
If you lived in Cincinnati, you'd hear shocked Bengals coach Marvin Lewis say recently of his naughty players: "I told the people that yes, you embarrass us as an organization, myself, and the coaches when these things occur. Right, wrong or indifferent, there are certain things that you're asked not to be a part of or around."
Right. By drafting known miscreants -- year after year -- Lewis has sent a message, and not a subliminal one, that high ability trumps low character. The skinflint Bengals have the NFL's smallest scouting department, which limits their ability to investigate potential draft picks, but come on. Try Google.com. Plug in "A.J. Nicholson" and "arrested."
The Bengals said neither Lewis nor owner Mike Brown would comment for this story, though Brown issued a statement last week. It read, in part: "We want our fans to know that we share their concerns regarding the recent off-field conduct of several Bengals players. We expect our players to be good citizens, as most are, and we hold them accountable for their conduct under team and league rules."
The Bengals aren't alone in valuing talent over character. The New York Yankees just signed pitcher Sidney Ponson, whose rap sheet includes punching out an Aruban judge. The Miami Hurricanes just lost linebacker Willie Williams, who seeks a transfer from the school that signed him despite his 11 adolescent arrests. That's two of 2,000 examples.
They have plenty of company, but the Bengals are especially brazen about it. On the same day news broke about Thurman's suspension and Rucker's continuance in his spousal battery case, the Bengals spent a third-round 2007 pick on Virginia linebacker Ahmad Brooks. Brooks was forced to go through the supplemental draft after being kicked off the team at Virginia, reportedly for failing multiple drug tests. He'll fit right in.
These are Marvin Lewis' Cincinnati Bengals. If this wasn't Cincinnati, I'd swear they were Al Davis' Oakland Raiders"Van Halen was one of the most hallelujah, tailgate, backyard, BBQ, arrive four hours early to the gig just for the parking lot bands. And still to this day is. It's an attitude. I think it's a spirit more than anything else is."Comment
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Really this offseason was a legal disaster for the NFL. I can't ever remember seeing nearly this many arrests, unfortunate crimes, legal battles, accidents, etc. in any sport as there has been in the NFL this year. If they don't watch it, they're going to get the NBA rep. from a few years ago.Comment
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Originally posted by POJO_Risin
Police: Pitcher hit wife in public
June 24, 2006
Boston Herald
Philadelphia Phillies hurler Brett Myers punched his wife and dragged her down Dalton Street by her hair early yesterday, police allege,
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Updated: July 21, 2006, 9:58 PM ET
Former All-Star Kemp charged with drug possession Associated Press
HOUSTON -- Shawn Kemp was arrested and charged Friday with possession of marijuana, the latest drug-related trouble for the former NBA All-Star.
Kemp, 36, was arrested following a traffic stop for driving without a license plate shortly after midnight Friday. An officer with the Harris County Sheriff's Department pulled Kemp over and said he noticed the smell of burning marijuana coming from Kemp's vehicle.
The officer later found less than 2 ounces of the illegal drug in Kemp's possession. The six-time All-Star was released from the Harris County Jail after posting a $500 cash bond and faces a July 28 court appearance.
Kemp checked into a rehabilitation clinic for cocaine use in 2001. In April 2005, he was arrested for possessing small amounts of cocaine and marijuana in his truck.
After 14 seasons with the Seattle SuperSonics, Cleveland Cavaliers, Portland Trail Blazers and Orlando Magic, Kemp retired from the league in 2003 and now lives in Houston.
"less than 2 ounces"
That's alot. Or is two ounces where it is a felony?
No license plate?
IdiotsigpicRoth Army CanadaComment
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Christ....have you seen Shawn Kemp's nose...
he could snort a fucking kilo in one fucking snort...
boy...he looks straight up fucking hammered there..."Van Halen was one of the most hallelujah, tailgate, backyard, BBQ, arrive four hours early to the gig just for the parking lot bands. And still to this day is. It's an attitude. I think it's a spirit more than anything else is."Comment
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Surely that should be taken into account.
Ones tolerance for said drugs should be weighed in...sigpicRoth Army CanadaComment
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Well...and he has what...
12 kids by 11 women?
I mean...if the fucker can afford his shit after all those payments...
LET HIM DO THE SHIT!"Van Halen was one of the most hallelujah, tailgate, backyard, BBQ, arrive four hours early to the gig just for the parking lot bands. And still to this day is. It's an attitude. I think it's a spirit more than anything else is."Comment
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12 kids with 11 women???
Explain to me how he is NOT allowed to do any and all drugs he wants?sigpicRoth Army CanadaComment
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